Flights to seven cities of the Volga region from Ufa will be subsidized from the budget in 2015

UFA, 26 January 2015. /Bashinform News Agency, Rozaliya Valeeva/. Flights from Ufa to Orenburg, Perm, Samara, Izhevsk, Kirov, Ulyanovsk and Cheboksary will be subsidized from the budget. These destinations are included in the list of routes, subsidized in 2015 as part of the RF Government Decree from December 17 2013.

Last year, the route network of the program included Kirov, Perm, Orenburg, Ulyanovsk, Cheboksary and Yoshkar-Ola.

Total 29 destinations are included in the list of subsidized routes in the Volga Federal District in 2015. 620 million rubles will be allocated for these purposes in 2015, the adviser to the Head of the Federal Air Transport Agency Sergei Izvolsky informs.

Flights to Izhevsk, Samara, Perm, Orenburg will be carried out by SUE "Airport Orenburg", and to Kirov, Ulyanovsk, Cheboksary – by JSC "Avia Management Group". The fares start from 2300 rubles depending on the direction.

The pilot subsidy project of the regional air transportation in the Volga Federal District was launched on April 1, 2013. Under the terms of the program, passengers pay only 50 percent of the total ticket price.